Gene Autry's Cowboy Code - Conrad Askland blog Conrad Askland blog askland Leave a comment Autry created the Cowboy Code or Cowboy Commandments in response to his young radio listeners aspiring to be just like Gene. I used to play keyboards for Roy Rogers Jr. – see Roy Rogers and Gene Autry had a friendly rivalry between them, all in good fun. But I’d bet my saddle that Roy would agree with this list too. 1. The Cowboy must never shoot first, hit a smaller man, or take unfair advantage. 2. He must never go back on his word, or a trust confided in him. 3. He must always tell the truth. 4. He must be gentle with children, the elderly, and animals. 5. He must not advocate or possess racially or religiously intolerant ideas. 6. He must help people in distress. 7. He must be a good worker. 8. He must keep himself clean in thought, speech, action, and personal habits. 9. He must respect women, parents, and his nationâ€™s laws. 10. The Cowboy is a patriot. No related posts.

OLD TIME RADIO OTR GENE AUTRY VOL #2 75 EPISODES OLD TIME RADIO OTR GENE AUTRY VOL #2 75 EPISODES Price: $4.99 Shipping: US-Mainland: free (more destinations) Condition: Brand new Payment Options: Money Order, Cashier's Check, Personal Check, Old Time Radio Shows GENE AUTRY Vol # 2 75 Episodes MY HUSBAND HAS BEEN COLLECTING OLD TIME RADIO SHOWS FOR A LONG TIME NOW. HE LISTENS TO THEM WHILE HE IS WORKING IN THE DARKROOM. WE THOUGHT WE WOULD SHARE THEM WITH OTHERS SO THEY COULD ENJOY THEM ALSO. “Hard-riding, sweet-singing, cowboy picture star Gene Autry” was heard each Sunday evening on radios across America via CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. Gene’s Melody Ranch radio show aired for an unprecedented 16 years (between 1940 and 1956), featuring songs, comedy and action filled drama.

Throughout the run, the show’s sponsor was cool, refreshing Doublemint Gum From 1940 to 1956 the public listened to him on Gene Autry's Melody Ranch radio show that was heard weekly over the CBS Radio Network, featuring Autry's trademark theme song Back In The Saddle Again. In addition, Autry's popularity was apparent during his personal appearance tours. The first performer to sell out Madison Square Garden, his concert and rodeo appearances throughout the United States and Europe are legendary and served as a model for other performers. Autry did two shows a day, seven days a week, for 65 to 85 days at a stretch. Cowboy Code Autry created the Cowboy Code, or Cowboy Commandments, in response to his young radio listeners aspiring to be just like Gene. 1 The Cowboy must never shoot first, hit a smaller man, or take unfair advantage. 2 He must never go back on his word, or a trust confided in him. 3 He must always tell the truth. 4 He must be gentle with children, the elderly, and animals. 5 He must not advocate or possess racially or religiously intolerant ideas. 6 He must help people in distress.

7 He must be a good worker. 8 He must keep himself clean in thought, speech, action, and personal habits. 9 He must respect women, parents, and his nation's laws. 10 The Cowboy is a patriot. THERE ARE 75 Episodes ON 1 CD AND THEY ARE IN MP3 FORMAT. THEY WILL PLAY ON ANY COMPUTER AND SOME CD PLAYERS THAT ARE MARKED PLAYS MP3s. YOU CAN EASILY BURN THEM TO A CD SO YOU CAN PLAY ON YOUR CAR SYSTEM. I HAVE THEM ON MY ZUNE AND ONE OF MY FRIENDS HAS THEM ON HIS I-POD. REMEMBER THEY ARE IN MP3 FORMAT AND WILL NOT PLAY ON MOST CD PLAYERS.

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 performer who gained fame as The Singing Cowboy on the radio, in movies and on television for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s.

Autry was also owner of the Los Angeles/California Angels Major League Baseball team from 1961 to 1997, as well as a television station and several radio stations in southern California. Although his signature song was âBack in the Saddle Againâ, Autry is best known today for his Christmas holiday songs, âHere Comes Santa Clausâ (which he wrote), âFrosty the Snowmanâ, and his biggest hit, âRudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeerâ. He is a member of both the Country Music and Nashville Songwriters halls of fame, and is the only celebrity to have five stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Biography Autry, the grandson of a Methodist preacher, was born near Tioga, Texas. His parents, Delbert Autry and Elnora Ozment, moved to Ravia, Oklahoma in the 1920s. He worked on his fatherâs ranch while at school. After leaving high school in 1925, Autry worked as a telegrapher for the St. LouisâSan Francisco Railway.

Talent with the guitar and his voice led to performing at local dance Early career Singing While working as a telegrapher, Autry would sing and accompany himself on the guitar to pass the lonely hours, especially when he had the midnight shift. One night he got encouragement to sing professionally from a customer, the famous humorist and wit, Will Rogers, who had heard Autry singing. As soon as he could collect money to travel, he went to New York. He auditioned for Victor Talking Machine, at just about the time (end of 1928) it became RCA Victor. According to Nathaniel Shilkret,[4] Director of Light Music for Victor at the time, Autry asked to speak to Shilkret when Autry found that he had been turned down. Shilkret explained to Autry that he was turned down not because of his voice, but because Victor had just made contracts with two similar singers. Autry left with a letter of introduction from Shilkret and the advice to sing on radio to gain experience and to come back in a year or two.

In 1928 Autry was singing on Tulsaâs radio station KVOO as âOklahomaâs Yodeling Cowboy,â and the Victor archives[5] shows an October 9, 1929, entry stating that the vocal duet of Jimmie Long and Gene Autry with two Hawaiian guitars, directed by L. L. Watson, recorded âMy Dreaming of Youâ (Matrix 56761) and âMy Alabamaâ (Matrix 56762). Autry signed a recording deal with Columbia Records in 1929. He worked in Chicago, Illinois, on the WLS-AM radio show National Barn Dance for four years, and with his own show, where he met singer-songwriter Smiley Burnette. In his early recording career, Autry covered various genres, including a labor song, âThe Death of Mother Jonesâ in 1931. Autry also recorded many âhillbillyâ-style records in 1930 and 1931 in New York City, which were certainly different in style and content from his later recordings.

These were much closer in style to the Prairie Ramblers or Dick Justice, and included the âDo Right Daddy Bluesâ and âBlack Bottom Bluesâ, both similar to âDeep Elem Bluesâ. These late-Prohibition era songs deal with bootlegging, corrupt police, and women whose occupation was certainly vice. These recordings are generally not heard today, but are available on European import labels, such as JSP Records. His first hit was in 1932 with âThat Silver-Haired Daddy Of Mineâ, a duet with fellow railroad man, Jimmy Long. Autry also sang the classic Ray Whitley hit âBack In The Saddle Again,â as well as many Christmas holiday songs including âSanta Claus Is Coming to Town,â his own composition âHere Comes Santa Clausâ, âFrosty the Snowmanâ, and his biggest hit, âRudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeerâ. Autry also owned the Challenge Records label. The labelâs biggest hit was âTequilaâ by The Champs in 1958, which started the rock-and-roll instrumental craze of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Autry made 640 recordings, including more than 300 songs written or co-written by him. His records sold more than 100 million copies and he has more than a dozen gold and platinum records, including the first record ever certified gold. Discovered by film producer Nat Levine in 1934, Autry and Burnette made their film debut for Mascot Pictures Corp. in In Old Santa Fe as part of a singing cowboy quartet; he was then given the starring role by Levine in 1935 in the 12-part serial The Phantom Empire. Shortly thereafter, Mascot was absorbed by the newly-formed Republic Pictures Corp., and Autry went along to make a further 44 films up to 1940, all B westerns in which he played under his own name, rode his horse Champion, had Burnette as his regular sidekick, and had many opportunities to sing in each film. He became the top Western star at the box office by 1937, reaching his national peak of popularity from 1940 to 1942. His Gene Autry Flying âAâ Ranch Rodeo show debuted in 1940.

Gene Autry was the first of the singing cowboys in films, succeeded as the top star by Roy Rogers when he served in WW II. Autry briefly returned to Republic after the war to finish out his contract, which had been suspended for the duration of his military service and which he had tried to have declared void after his discharge. He appeared in 1951 in the film Texans Never Cry, with a role for newcomer Mary Castle. After 1951 he formed his own production company to make Westerns under his own control, which continued the 1947 distribution agreement with Columbia Pictures. Melody Ranch Autry purchased the 110-acre (0.45 km2) Monogram Movie Ranch in 1953, located in Placerita Canyon near Newhall, California in the northern San Gabriel Mountains foothills. He renamed it the âMelody Ranchâ after his movie âMelody Ranchâ.[7]. Autry then sold 98-acre (0.40 km2) of the property, most of the original ranch.

The western town, adobes, and ranch cabin sets and open land for location shooting were retained as a movie ranch on 12-acre (0.049 km2). A decade after he purchased âMelody Ranch,â a brushfire swept through in August 1962, destroying most of the original standing sets. However, the devastated landscape did prove useful for productions such as Combat!. A complete adobe ranch survived at the northeast section of the ranch. In 1990, after his favorite horse âChampion,â who lived in retirement there died, Autry put the remaining 12-acre (0.049 km2) ranch up for sale.

It is now known as the âMelody Ranch Motion Picture Studioâ and âMelody Ranch Studiosâ on 22-acre (0.089 km2).[10] The ranch has Melody Ranch Museum open year-round; and one weekend a year the entire ranch is open to the public during the Cowboy Poetry & Music Festival, another legacy of Autryâs multi-talents.[11][12] Radio and TV From 1940 to 1956, Autry had a huge hit with a weekly show on CBS Radio, Gene Autryâs Melody Ranch. His horse, Champion, also had a CBS-TV and Mutual radio series, The Adventures of Champion. He created the Cowboy Code, or Cowboy Commandments, in response to his young radio listeners aspiring to emulate him. Under his code, the Cowboy must: 1. never shoot first, hit a smaller man, or take unfair advantage. 2. never go back on his word, or a trust confided in him. 3. always tell the truth. 4. be gentle with children, the elderly and animals. 5. not advocate or possess racially or religiously intolerant ideas. 6. help people in distress. 7.

be a good worker. 8. keep himself clean in thought, speech, action and personal habits. 9. respect women, parents and his nationâs laws. 10. be a patriot. Beginning in 1950, he produced and starred in his own television show on CBS, and made several appearances on ABC-TVâs Jubilee USA in the late 1950s. Military career Autry served as a C-47 Skytrain pilot in the United States Army Air Forces, with the rank of Flight Officer[1] in the Air Transport Command during World War II flying dangerous missions over the Himalayas, nicknamed the Hump, between Burma and China. Rodeo Few are aware of Autryâs longtime involvement in professional rodeo. In 1942 Autry, at the height of his screen popularity, had a string of rodeo stock based in Ardmore, Okla. A year later he became a partner in the World Championship Rodeo Company, which furnished stock for many of the countryâs major rodeos. In 1954 he acquired Montanaâs top bucking string from the estate of Leo J. Cremer, Sr.

and put Canadian saddle bronc riding champion Harry Knight in charge of the operation. A merger with the World Championship Rodeo Company in 1956 made Autry the sole owner. He moved the entire company to a 24,000-acre ranch near Fowler, Colo., with Knight as the working partner in the operation. For the next 12 years they provided stock for most of the major rodeos in Texas, Colorado, Montana and Nebraska. When the company was sold in 1968, both men continued to be active in rodeo. For his work as a stock contractor, Autry was inducted into the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Associationâs ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 1979. Retirement Autry retired from show business in 1964, having made almost 100 films up to 1955, and over 600 records. He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1969, and to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.

After retiring, he invested widely and in real estate, radio, and television, including the purchase from dying Republic Pictures the rights for films he had made for the company. In 1952, Autry bought the old Monogram Ranch in Placerita Canyon (Newhall-Santa Clarita, California) and renamed it Melody Ranch. Numerous âBâ Westerns and TV shows were shot there during Autryâs ownership, including the initial years of Gunsmoke with James Arness. Melody Ranch burned down in 1962, dashing Autryâs plans to turn it into a museum. According to a published story by Autry, the fire caused him to turn his attention to Griffith Park, where he would build his Museum of Western Heritage (now known as the Autry National Center). Melody Ranch came back to life after 1991, when it was purchased by the Veluzat family and rebuilt. It survives as a movie location today as well as the home of the City of Santa Claritaâs annual Cowboy Festival, where Autryâs legacy takes center stage.

Happy Birthday: Gene Autry | Lottery Post Home -> Forums -> Mystical -> Happy Birthday: Gene Autry Happy Birthday: Gene Autry Topic closed. 1 reply. Last post 9 years ago by MADDOG10 . Page 1 of 1 Posted: September 29, 2007, 7:41 pm - IP Logged Birth Name: Orvon Gene Autry Also known as: Gene Autry Born: 29 September 1907 (09/29/1907) Origin: Tioga, Texas, USA Died: 02 October 1998 (Age 91) Genre(s): Country Western Music Years Active: 1931 - 1964 Cowboy Code Autry created the Cowboy Code or Cowboy Commandments in response to his young radio listeners aspiring to be just like Gene. 01. The Cowboy must never shoot first, hit a smaller man, or take unfair advantage. 02. He must never go back on his word, or a trust confided in him. 03. He must always tell the truth. 04. He must be gentle with children, the elderly, and animals. 05.

He must not advocate or possess racially or religiously intolerant ideas. 06. He must help people in distress. 07. He must be a good worker. 08. He must keep himself clean in thought, speech, action, and personal habits. 09. He must respect women, parents, and his nation's laws. 10. The Cowboy is a patriot. A mind once stretched by a new idea never returns to its original dimensions! Years Active: 1931 - 1964 Cowboy Code Autry created the Cowboy Code or Cowboy Commandments in response to his young radio listeners aspiring to be just like Gene. 01. The Cowboy must never shoot first, hit a smaller man, or take unfair advantage. 02. He must never go back on his word, or a trust confided in him. 03. He must always tell the truth. 04. He must be gentle with children, the elderly, and animals. 05. He must not advocate or possess racially or religiously intolerant ideas. 06. He must help people in distress. 07. He must be a good worker. 08. He must keep himself clean in thought, speech, action, and personal habits.

09. He must respect women, parents, and his nation's laws. 10. The Cowboy is a patriot. Mr. Gene ( back in the saddle again) Autry. Would've been 100 today. autry (Jukka Joutsi * October 2008 ~ latest up-datings: 24.10.2013) A)GENE AUTRY recordings in my collection: GENE AUTRY'S MELODY RANCH (Golden Age Records * 1977) ~ Radio Show Of June 9, 1951: Theme - Back In the Saddle Again, Good Old Fashioned Hoe Down, How Long Is Forever, PAT BUTTRAM ~ comedy, My Truly Truly Fair - CASS COUNTY BOYS. Mr. And Mississippi, Story (with JOHNNY BOND): Gene Held Up And Robbed, The West A Nest And You, Theme - Back In The Saddle Again. CARL COTNER Orchestra & Pinaflores.

CHRISTMASTIME With GENE AUTRY (Mistletoe Records MLP-1207): Jingle Bells, Silver Bells, Here Comes Santa Claus, Up On The House Top, Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, Sleigh Bells, O Little Town Of Bethlemen, Silent Night, Joy To The World. GENE AUTRY and CHAMPION (Fontana 1959): "The Story of Little Champ" - songs: Big Corral, Night Herding Song (featuring Wally Maher and The Carl Cotner Orchestra). GENE AUTRY Sings Songs Of Faith (Republic Records RLP 6017): Little Old Church In The Valley, A Voice In The Choir, Wither Thou Goest, The Angel Song, Peace In The Valley, Bless This House, While The Angelus Was Ringing, A New Star Is Shining In Heaven, Battle Hymn Of The Republic, God's Little Candles. B) SONGBOOKS: Gene Autry's Sensational Collection of Cowboy Songs and Mountain Ballads (1932). Alone with My Sorrows. Bear Cat Papa Blues. Blue Days.

By The Ozark Trail. Cowboy Yodel. Dad in the Hills. Dog Gone Blues. Down and Out Blues. I'll Be Thinking of You Little Gal. I'm Always Dreaming of You. Missouri is Calling. Money Ain't No Use Anyway. My Alabama Home. My Cross Eyed Gal. My Pal of Yesterday. No One To Call Me Darling. Pictures of My Mother. That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine. That's How I Got My Start. The Gangster's Warning/ The Jail House Blues. The Mississippi Valley Blues. The Rheumatism Blues. The Yodeling Hobo. True Blue Bill. Under The Old Apple Tree . Watching The Clouds Roll By. When Father Was A Little Boy. Why Don't You Come Back to Me. Yodel Your Troubles Away. Gene Autry's Book No. 2 Famous Cowboy Songs and Mountain Ballads(1934).

Dear Old Western Skies, The Crime I Didn't Do, There's an Empty Cot in the Bunk-house Tonight, Way Out West in Texas, The Dying Cowgirl, That Mother and Daddy of Mine, Where are You, Sweetheart, Back Home in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Lou'siana Moon, The Yellow Rose of Texas, Cowboy's Heaven, I Los a Par, When I Lost My Gal, The New Busted Blues, When the Humming Birds are Humming, Atlanta Bound, In the Hills of Caroline, There's a Letter in the Mail Box From Mother, Kentucky Lullaby, That Tumbled Down Shack, So Long Old Pal, I'm a Railroad Man Without a Railroad Fare, The Convict's Dream, If You Let Me Be Your Little Sweetheart, When the Moon Shines on the Mississippi Valley, Returning to My Cabin Home, Don't Take Me Back to the Chain Gang, Back in Those Bicycle Days, The Farmer's Son. Gene Autry's Deluxe Edition of Famous Original Cowboy Songs & Mountain Ballads (1938).

Ridin' Down the Canyon, Round Up in Cheyenne, sing Me a Song of the Saddle, Friends of the Prairie, Farewell, Guns & Guitars, Hurdy Gurdy Man, Don Juan of Sevillio, Covered Wagon Trail, Rainbow Trail, When the Cactus is Blooming at Home, Yipee Ya Dee Yi Yay, Dreaming of the Western Plains, In a Chapel on the Plains, When the Prairie Campfires Burn, Sweet Mountain Mother of Mine, Please Don't Tell My Mother, Moco Loco, Hold on Little Doggie Hold On, My Old Saddle Pal, I Want a Pardon for Daddy, Covered Wagon, Cowpuncher's Blues, I'll Go Ridin' Down that Old Texas Trail, When the Campfire is Low on the Prairie, 'Leven Months in Levenworth, Wagon Train, When the Round-up Days are Over, In the Dream World of Yesterday, Mother, Here's a Bouquet for You, Don't Jump the gun, When a Cowboy Makes Love, Rainbow Valley, Ridin' High, The Cowboy's Good-bye, Roamin' Around the Range, Little Old Faded Blue Bonnet, I'm Gonna

 Hit the Trail, We Will Meet in the sky, If You Want to be a Cowboy, Old Ranch House, At the Millhouse Wild West Show, I Picked Up the Trail When I Found You, I'm Getting a Moon's Eye View of the World, My Cross Eyed Gal, Where a Water Wheel Keeps Turning On, She's Somebody's Old Fashioned Sweetheart, We'll Ride Toward the Sunset Together, Tonight on the Range, Leaving the Range, On a Beautiful Star Spangled Night, Rodeo Rose, A Cabin that's Waiting There, That's How Donkeys Were Born, Blue Bird Valley, Little Cowboy Pal, When It's Tune Wrangling Time in Texas, Song of the Plains, Old Trail Driver, Roses in the Sunset, I'm A-Ridin' Up the Old Kentucky Mountain, I'm a Tumbleweed Tenor, Old Red Barn, Goodbye to the Prairie, Were You Sincere?, Indian Song, When the Tumble Weeds Come Tumbling Down Again, There's a Ring Around the Moon, Jail Song, In the Heart of the West, Life on the Range, Just Come on Back, I'm Oscar - I'm Pete, Uncle Noah's Ark, Headin' for the Old

 Corral.

Gene Autry's Collection of Jukebox-Radio-Movie Hits (1945). As Long as I Have My Horse, A Year Ago Tonight, Born in the Saddle, Dude Ranch Cow Hands, I Don't Belong in Your World, If it Wasn't for the Rain, If You Only Believed in Me, I Hang My Head and Cry, I'm Gonna Round Up My Blues, 'Neath the Blue Montana Sky, Rockin' in the Saddle, Take Me Back into your Heart, That Dear Old Dad of Mine, There's a Rainbow on the Rio Colorado, The Same Old Fashioned Girl, Tweedle-O-Twill, When We All Get Together in Heaven, Yesterday's Roses, You are My Sunshine, You'll Be Sorry. C)(Wikipedia, 23.10.2008): Orvon Gene Autry (September 29, 1907 � October 2, 1998) was an American performer, who gained fame as The Singing Cowboy on the radio, in movies and on television. Autry, the grandson of a Methodist preacher, was born near Tioga, Texas.

His parents, Delbert Autry and Elnora Ozment, moved to Ravia, Oklahoma in the 1920s. After leaving high school in 1925, Autry worked as a telegrapher for the St. Louis�San Francisco Railway. An amateur talent with the guitar and voice led to his performing at local dances. After an encouraging chance encounter with Will Rogers, he began performing on local radio in 1928 as "Oklahoma's Yodeling Cowboy". He signed a recording deal with Columbia Records in 1929. He worked in Chicago, Illinois, on the WLS (AM) radio show National Barn Dance for four years with his own show where he met singer/songwriter Smiley Burnette. In his early recording career Autry covered various genres, including a labor song, "The Death of Mother Jones" in 1931. Autry also recorded many "hillbilly" style records in 1930 and 1931 in New York City which were certainly different in style and content than his later recordings.

These much closer in style to the Prairie Ramblers or Dick Justice, and included the "Do Right Daddy Blues" and "Black Bottom Blues", both of which contain substantial similarity to "Deep Elem Blues". These late prohibition era songs deal with bootlegging, corrupt police, and women whose occupation is certainly vice. These recording are generally not heard today, but are available on European import labels such as JSP Records. But his first hit was in 1932 with That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine, a duet with fellow railroad man, Jimmy Long. Autry also sang the classic Ray Whitley hit "Back in the Saddle Again", as well as many Christmas songs including "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town", his own composition "Here Comes Santa Claus", "Frosty the Snowman" and probably his biggest hit ever, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". Autry also owned the Challenge Records label. The label's biggest hit was "Tequila" by The Champs in 1958, which started the rock and roll instrumental craze of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Discovered by film producer Nat Levine in 1934, he and Burnette made their film debut for Mascot Pictures Corp. in In Old Santa Fe as part of a singing cowboy quartet; he was then given the starring role by Levine in 1935 in the 12-part serial The Phantom Empire. Shortly thereafter, Mascot was absorbed by the formation of Republic Pictures Corp. and Autry went along to make a further 44 films up to 1940, all B westerns in which he played under his own name, rode his horse Champion, had Burnette as his regular sidekick and had many opportunities to sing in each film. He became the top Western star at the box-office by 1937, reaching his national peak of popularity from 1940 to 1942. His Gene Autry Flying "A" Ranch Rodeo show debuted in 1940.

He was the first of the singing cowboys, succeeded as the top star by Roy Rogers when Autry served as a C-47 Skytrain pilot of the United States Army Air Forces with the rank of Flight Officer in the Air Transport Command during World War II flying dangerous missions over the Hump between Burma and China. From 1940 to 1956, Autry had a huge hit with a weekly radio show on CBS, Gene Autry's Melody Ranch, and his horse, Champion, also had a radio-TV series The Adventures of Champion. Autry briefly returned to Republic after the war, to finish out his contract, which had been suspended for the duration of his military service and which he had tried to have declared void after his discharge. Thereafter, he formed his own production company to make westerns under his own control, which were distributed by Columbia Pictures, beginning in 1947. He also starred in and produced his own television show on CBS beginning in 1950. He retired from show business in 1964, having made almost a hundred films up to 1955 and over 600 records.

He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1969 and to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. Post-retirement, he invested widely in real estate, radio and television, including purchasing from dying Republic Pictures the rights for films he had made for the company. In 1952, Autry bought the old Monogram Ranch in Placerita Canyon (Newhall-Santa Clarita, California) and renamed it Melody Ranch. Numerous "B" Westerns and TV serials were shot there during Autry's ownership, including the initial years of "Gunsmoke" with James Arness. Melody Ranch burned down in 1962, dashing Autry's plans to turn it into a museum. According to a published story by Autry, the fire diverted his attention to Griffith Park, where he would build his Museum of Western Heritage (now known as the Autry National Center). But like a phoenix rising, Melody Ranch came back to life after 1991 when it was purchased by the Veluzat family and rebuilt.

It survives as a movie location today as well as the home of the City of Santa Clarita's annual Cowboy Festival, where Autry's legacy always takes center stage. Autry created the Cowboy Code or Cowboy Commandments in response to his young radio listeners aspiring to be just like Gene. The Cowboy must never shoot first, hit a smaller man, or take unfair advantage. He must never go back on his word, or a trust confided in him. He must always tell the truth. He must be gentle with children, the elderly, and animals. He must not advocate or possess racially or religiously intolerant ideas. He must help people in distress. He must be a good worker. He must keep himself clean in thought, speech, action, and personal habits. He must respect women, parents, and his nation's laws. The Cowboy is a patriot. In the 1950s, Autry had been a minority owner of the minor-league Hollywood Stars.

In 1960, when Major League Baseball announced plans to add an expansion team in Los Angeles, Autry � who had once declined an opportunity to play in the minor leagues � expressed an interest in acquiring the radio broadcast rights to the team's games; baseball executives were so impressed by his approach that he was persuaded to become the owner of the franchise rather than simply its broadcast partner. The team, initially called the Los Angeles Angels upon its 1961 debut, moved to suburban Anaheim in 1966 and became known as the California Angels, then the Anaheim Angels from 1997 until 2005, when it became the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Autry served as vice president of the American League from 1983 until his death. In 1995 he sold a quarter share of the team to The Walt Disney Company, and a controlling interest the following year, with the remaining share to be transferred after his death. Earlier, in 1982, he sold Los Angeles television station KTLA for $245 million.

He also sold several radio stations he owned, including KSFO in San Francisco, KMPC in Los Angeles, KOGO in San Diego, and other stations in the Golden West radio network. The number 26 was retired by the Angels in Autry's honor. The chosen number reflected that baseball's rosters are 25-man strong and Autry's support for his team. In 1932 he married Ina May Spivey (who died in 1980), who was the niece of Jimmy Long. He married his second wife, Jackie Autry, in 1981. He had no children by either marriage. During World War II Autry served as a pilot in the United States Army Air Forces with the rank of Flight Officer.[1] He flew the C-47 Skytrain in the Air Transport Command flying dangerous missions over the Hump between Burma and China. Gene Autry is the only celebrity to have five stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one in each of the five categories maintained by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. The stars are (Category / Address): Motion pictures * 6644 Hollywood Blvd. Radio * 6520 Hollywood Blvd.

Television * 6667 Hollywood Blvd. Live theatre * 7000 Hollywood Blvd. In 1972, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Autry was a life member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Burbank Lodge No. 1497. His 1976 autobiography, co-written by Mickey Herskowitz, was titled Back in the Saddle Again after his 1939 hit and signature tune. He is also featured year after year, on radio and "shopping mall theme music" at the holiday season, by his famous recording of "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer". "Rudolph" became the first #1 hit of the 1950s. CMT in 2003 ranked him #38 in CMT's 40 Greatest Men of Country Music. When the Anaheim Angels won their first World Series in 2002, much of the championship was dedicated to him.

The interchange of Interstate 5 and State Route 134, located near the Autry National Center in Los Angeles, is signed as the "Gene Autry Memorial Interchange." In 2007, he became a charter member of the Gennett Records Walk of Fame in Richmond, Indiana. Johnny Cash recorded a song in 1978 about Autry called "Who is Gene Autry". Cash also got Autry to sign his famous black Martin D-35 guitar and the signature can be seen very clearly in the video for "Hurt." NWA Eazy-E mentioned Autry in his song We Want Eazy in his 1988 album Eazy Duz It. The Museum of the American West in Los Angeles' Griffith Park was founded in 1988 as the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum, featuring much of his collection of Western art and memorabilia. Its mission is to preserve everything related to the "mythic aspects" of the American "old West" from true historical lifestyles to the 70-year saga of the Hollywood "Western movie" genre.

Included for many years on Forbes magazine's list of the 400 richest Americans, he slipped to their "near miss" category in 1995 with an estimated net worth of $320 million. Gene Autry died of lymphoma at age 91 at his home in Studio City, California and is interred in the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. His death on October 2, 1998 came nearly three months after the death of another celebrated cowboy of the silver screen, radio, and TV, Roy Rogers. Gene Autry was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 2003. In 2004, the Starz Entertainment Corporation joined forces with the Autry estate to restore all of his films, which have been shown on Starz's Encore Western Channel on cable television on a regular basis to date since.

Gene Autry · 2017 Tour Dates and Concert Tickets | Thrillcall Track Artist for New Show Alerts Orvon Grover Autry (September 29, 1907 – October 2, 1998), better known as Gene Autry, was an American performer who gained fame as a singing cowboy on the radio, in movies, and on television for more than three decades beginning in the early 1930s. Aut... Orvon Grover Autry (September 29, 1907 – October 2, 1998), better known as Gene Autry, was an American performer who gained fame as a singing cowboy on the radio, in movies, and on television for more than three decades beginning in the early 1930s. Autry was also owner of a television station, several radio stations in Southern California, and the Los Angeles/California/Anaheim Angels Major League Baseball team from 1961 to 1997. From 1934 to 1953, Autry appeared in 93 films and 91 episodes of The Gene Autry Show television series.

During the 1930s and 1940s, he personified the straight-shooting hero—honest, brave, and true—and profoundly touched the lives of millions of Americans. Autry was also one of the most important figures in the history of country music, considered the second major influential artist of the genre's development after Jimmie Rodgers. His singing cowboy movies were the first vehicle to carry country music to a national audience. In addition to his signature song, "Back in the Saddle Again", Autry is still remembered for his Christmas holiday songs, "Here Comes Santa Claus", which he wrote, "Frosty the Snowman", and his biggest hit, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". Autry is a member of both the Country Music Hall of Fame and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and is the only person to be awarded stars in all five categories on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for film, television, music, radio, and live performance. The town of Gene Autry, Oklahoma was named in his honor.

Biography Early years Orvon Grover Autry was born September 29, 1907 near Tioga in Grayson County in north Texas, the grandson of a Methodist preacher. His parents, Delbert Autry and Elnora Ozment, moved in the 1920s to Ravia in Johnston County in southern Oklahoma. He worked on his father's ranch while at school. After leaving high school in 1925, Autry worked as a telegrapher for the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway. His talent at singing and playing guitar led to performing at local dances. Singing career While working as a telegrapher, Autry would sing and accompany himself on the guitar to pass the lonely hours, especially when he had the midnight shift. This later got him sacked. One night he was encouraged to sing professionally by a customer, the famous humorist Will Rogers, who had heard Autry singing. As soon as he could collect money to travel, he went to New York. He auditioned for Victor Records, at just about the time (end of 1928) it became RCA Victor.

According to Nathaniel Shilkret, director of Light Music for Victor at the time, Autry asked to speak to Shilkret when Autry found that he had been turned down. Shilkret explained to Autry that he was turned down not because of his voice, but because Victor had just made contracts with two similar singers. Autry left with a letter of introduction from Shilkret and the advice to sing on radio to gain experience and to come back in a year or two. In 1928, Autry was singing on Tulsa's radio station KVOO as "Oklahoma's Yodeling Cowboy," and the Victor archives show an October 9, 1929, entry stating that the vocal duet of Jimmie Long and Gene Autry with two Hawaiian guitars, directed by L. L. Watson, recorded "My Dreaming of You" (Matrix 56761) and "My Alabama" (Matrix 56762). Autry signed a recording deal with Columbia Records in 1929.

He worked in Chicago, Illinois, on the WLS-AM radio show National Barn Dance for four years, and with his own show, where he met singer-songwriter Smiley Burnette. In his early recording career, Autry covered various genres, including a labor song, "The Death of Mother Jones" in 1931. Autry also recorded many "hillbilly"-style records in 1930 and 1931 in New York City, which were certainly different in style and content from his later recordings. These were much closer in style to the Prairie Ramblers or Dick Justice, and included the "Do Right, Daddy Blues" and "Black Bottom Blues," both similar to "Deep Elem Blues." These late-Prohibition era songs deal with bootlegging, corrupt police, and women whose occupation was certainly vice. These recordings are generally not heard today but are available on European import labels, such as JSP Records. His first hit was in 1932 with "That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine," a duet with fellow railroad man, Jimmy Long, and which Autry and Long co-wrote.

Autry also sang the classic Ray Whitley hit "Back In The Saddle Again", as well as many Christmas holiday songs, including "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," his own composition "Here Comes Santa Claus," "Frosty the Snowman," and his biggest hit, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." He wrote "Here Comes Santa Claus" after being the Grand Marshall of the 1946 Santa Claus Lane Parade (Now the Hollywood Christmas Parade). He heard all of the spectators watching the parade saying "Here comes Santa Claus!" virtually handing him the title for his song. He recorded his version of the song in 1947 and it became an instant classic. Autry was the original owner of Challenge Records. The label's biggest hit was "Tequila" by The Champs in 1958, which started the rock-and-roll instrumental craze of the late 1950s and early 1960s. He sold the label soon after, but the maroon and later green label has the "GA" in a shield above the label name. Autry made 640 recordings, including more than 300 songs written or co-written by himself.

His records sold more than 100 million copies and he has more than a dozen gold and platinum records, including the first record ever certified gold. Film career Discovered by film producer Nat Levine in 1934, Autry and Burnette made their film debut for Mascot Pictures Corp. in In Old Santa Fe as part of a singing cowboy quartet; he was then given the starring role by Levine in 1935 in the 12-part serial The Phantom Empire. Shortly thereafter, Mascot was absorbed by the newly formed Republic Pictures Corp. and Autry went along to make a further 44 films up to 1940, all B Westerns in which he played under his own name, rode his horse, Champion, had Burnette as his regular sidekick, and had many opportunities to sing in each film. Pat Buttram was picked by Gene Autry, recently returned from his World War II service in the United States Army Air Forces, to work with him.

Buttram would co-star with Gene Autry in more than 40 films and in over 100 episodes of Autry's television show In the Motion Picture Herald Top Ten Money-Making Western Stars poll Autry was listed every year from 1936 to 1942 and 1946 to 1954 (he was serving in the AAF 1943–45), holding first place 1937 to 1942, and second place (after Roy Rogers) 1947 to 1954. He appeared in the similar Box Office poll from 1936 to 1955, holding first place from 1936 to 1942 and second place (after Rogers) from 1943 to 1952. While these two polls are really an indication only of the popularity of series stars, Autry also appeared in the Top Ten Money Makers Poll of all films from 1940 to 1942, His Gene Autry Flying "A" Ranch Rodeo show debuted in 1940.

Gene Autry was the first of the singing cowboys in films, but was succeeded as the top star by Roy Rogers while Gene Autry served in the AAF during World War II. Autry briefly returned to Republic to finish out his contract, which had been suspended for the duration of his military service and which he had tried to have declared void after his discharge. He appeared in 1951 in the film Texans Never Cry, with a role for newcomer Mary Castle. After 1951 he formed his own production company to make Westerns under his own control, which continued the 1947 distribution agreement with Columbia Pictures. Melody Ranch Autry purchased the 110 acre Monogram Movie Ranch in 1953, located in Placerita Canyon near Newhall, California in the northern San Gabriel Mountains foothills. He renamed it the Melody Ranch after his movie Melody Ranch. Autry then sold 98 acres of the property, most of the original ranch. The Western town, adobes, and ranch cabin sets and open land for location shooting were retained as a movie ranch on 12 acres.

A decade after he purchased Melody Ranch, a brushfire swept through in August 1962, destroying most of the original standing sets. However, the devastated landscape did prove useful for productions such as Combat!. A complete adobe ranch survived at the northeast section of the ranch. In 1990, after his favorite horse Champion, who lived in retirement there, died, Autry put the remaining 12 acre ranch up for sale. It is now known as the Melody Ranch Motion Picture Studio and Melody Ranch Studios on 22 acres. The ranch has Melody Ranch Museum open year-round; and one weekend a year the entire ranch is open to the public during the Cowboy Poetry & Music Festival, another legacy of Autry's multi-talents. Radio and television career From 1940 to 1956, Autry had a huge hit with a weekly show on CBS Radio, Gene Autry's Melody Ranch. His horse, Champion, also had a CBS-TV and Mutual radio series, The Adventures of Champion. In response to his many young radio listeners aspiring to emulate him, Autry created the Cowboy Code, or Ten Cowboy Commandments.

These tenets promoting an ethical, moral, and patriotic lifestyle that appealed to youth organizations such as the Boy Scouts, which developed similar doctrines. The Cowboy Code consisted of rules that were "a natural progression of Gene's philosophies going back to his first Melody Ranch programs—and early pictures." According to the code: The Cowboy must never shoot first, hit a smaller man, or take unfair advantage. He must never go back on his word, or a trust confided in him. He must always tell the truth. He must be gentle with children, the elderly, and animals. He must not advocate or possess racially or religiously intolerant ideas. He must help people in distress. He must be a good worker. He must keep himself clean in thought, speech, action, and personal habits. He must respect women, parents, and his nation's laws. The Cowboy is a patriot. Beginning in 1950, he produced and starred in his own television show on CBS and made several appearances on ABC-TV's Jubilee USA in the late 1950s.

In 1995 Autry costarred with Charlton Heston, Mickey Rooney, Deborah Winters and Peter Graves in the Warren Chaney docudrama, America: A Call to Greatness. Military career During World War II Autry enlisted in the United States Army in 1942 and became a tech sergeant in the Air Corps. Holding a private pilot's license, he was determined to become an aviator and earned his service pilot rating in June 1944, serving as a C-109 transport pilot with the rank of flight officer. Assigned to a unit of the Air Transport Command, he flew as part of the dangerous airlift operation over the Himalayas between India and China, nicknamed the Hump. Rodeo Few are aware of Autry's longtime involvement in professional rodeo. In 1942 Autry, at the height of his screen popularity, had a string of rodeo stock based in Ardmore, Oklahoma. A year later he became a partner in the World Championship Rodeo Company, which furnished livestock for many of the country's major rodeos. In 1954 he acquired Montana's top bucking string from the estate of Leo J.

Cremer, Sr. and put Canadian saddle bronc riding champion Harry Knight in charge of the operation. A merger with the World Championship Rodeo Company in 1956 made Autry the sole owner. He moved the entire company to a 24,000-acre (97 km2) ranch near Fowler, Colorado, with Knight as the working partner in the operation. For the next 12 years they provided livestock for most of the major rodeos in Texas, Colorado, Montana and Nebraska. When the company was sold in 1968, both men continued to be active in rodeo. For his work as a livestock contractor Autry was inducted into the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association's ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 1979. Retirement Autry retired from show business in 1964, having made almost 100 films up to 1955 and over 600 records. He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1969 and to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.

After retiring, he invested widely and in real estate, radio, and television, including the purchase from dying Republic Pictures the rights for films he had made for the company. In 1952 Autry bought the old Monogram Ranch in Placerita Canyon (Newhall-Santa Clarita, California,) and renamed it Melody Ranch. Numerous "B" Westerns and TV shows were shot there during Autry's ownership, including the initial years of Gunsmoke with James Arness. Melody Ranch burned down in 1962, dashing Autry's plans to turn it into a museum. According to a published story by Autry the fire caused him to turn his attention to Griffith Park, where he would build his Museum of Western Heritage (now known as the Autry National Center). Melody Ranch came back to life after 1991, when it was purchased by the Veluzat family and rebuilt. It survives as a movie location today as well as the home of the City of Santa Clarita's annual Cowboy Festival, where Autry's legacy takes center stage. Baseball In the 1950s Autry had been a minority owner of the minor-league Hollywood Stars.

In 1960, when Major League Baseball announced plans to add an expansion team in Los Angeles, Autry—who had once declined an opportunity to play in the minor leagues—expressed an interest in acquiring the radio broadcast rights to the team's games. Baseball executives were so impressed by his approach that he was persuaded to become the owner of the franchise rather than simply its broadcast partner. The team, initially called the Los Angeles Angels upon its 1961 debut, moved to suburban Anaheim in 1966, and was renamed the California Angels, then the Anaheim Angels from 1997 until 2005, when it became the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Autry served as vice president of the American League from 1983 until his death. In 1995 he sold a quarter share of the team to The Walt Disney Company and a controlling interest the following year, with the remaining share to be transferred after his death. Earlier, in 1982, he sold Los Angeles television station KTLA for $245 million.

He also sold several radio stations he owned, including KSFO in San Francisco, KMPC in Los Angeles, KOGO in San Diego, and other stations in the Golden West radio network. The number 26 (as in 26th man) was retired by the Angels in Autry's honor. The chosen number reflected that baseball's rosters are 25-man strong, so Autry's unflagging support for his team made him the 26th member. Death Gene Autry died of lymphoma on October 2, 1998, aged 91 at his home in Studio City, California and is interred in the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Personal life In 1932 he married Ina May Spivey (who died in 1980), who was the niece of Jimmy Long. In 1981 he married Jacqueline Ellam, who had been his banker. He had no children by either marriage. Autry, was raised into Freemasonry in 1927 at Catoosa Lodge No. 185, Catoosa Oklahoma.

He later became a 33rd degree Master Mason, as recorded on his headstone. Legacy On November 16, 1941, the town of Berwyn, Oklahoma, north of Ardmore, was renamed in honor of Gene Autry. In 1972 he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Autry was a life member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Burbank Lodge No. 1497. His 1976 autobiography, co-written by Mickey Herskowitz, was titled Back in the Saddle Again after his 1939 hit and signature tune. He is also featured year after year, on radio and "shopping mall music" at the holiday season, by his recording of "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer." "Rudolph" became the first No. 1 hit of the 1950s. CMT in 2003 ranked him No. 38 in CMT's 40 Greatest Men of Country Music.

When the Anaheim Angels won their first World Series in 2002, much of the championship was dedicated to him. The interchange of Interstate 5 and State Route 134, located near the Autry National Center in Los Angeles, is signed as the "Gene Autry Memorial Interchange." In 2007, he became a charter member of the Gennett Records Walk of Fame in Richmond, Indiana. Johnny Cash recorded a song in 1978 about Autry called "Who is Gene Autry?" Cash also got Autry to sign his famous black Martin D-35 guitar, which he plays in the video of "Hurt." In 1977, Autry was awarded the American Patriots Medal by Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Other winners of this medal were Helen Hayes, John Wayne, and Texas State Representative Clay Smothers. Autry was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 2003. In 2004, the Starz Entertainment Corporation joined forces with the Autry estate to restore all of his films, which have been shown on Starz's Encore Western Channel on cable television on a regular basis to date since.

Autry was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1991. Hollywood Walk of Fame Autry is the only person to have five stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one in each of the five categories maintained by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. Motion pictures, located at 6644 Hollywood Blvd. Radio, located at 6520 Hollywood Blvd. Recording, located at 6384 Hollywood Blvd. Television, located at 6667 Hollywood Blvd. Live theater, located at 7000 Hollywood Blvd. The Museum of the American West The Museum of the American West in Los Angeles' Griffith Park was founded in 1988 as the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum, featuring much of his collection of Western art and memorabilia. It is now called The Autry National Center and is divided into two locations, eight miles apart from each other. Its mission is to present the unique and diverse perspectives of the American West, including the romanticized West in pop culture and the "real" nuanced history, including native and minority voices. Discography The Cowboy Code or Cowboy Ten Comandments by G.

Autry Free Dating, Singles and Personals The Cowboy Code or Cowboy Ten Comandments by G. Autry Posted: 3/7/2007 6:58:32 AM I don't know why you think Mr. Autry comprised this 10 list of who or what a cowboy was or is? In fact, these values were established by the cowboys (vaqueros) themselves (a silent code of ethics) existed for a couple hundred years before Hollywood and the east discovered the cowboy or the romantic concept of what a cowboy was or is. These rules existed in part because without them, the cowboy in his tough and wild environment could not have survived. The more important rules and I quote: A cowboy was expected to be cheerful even if he was tired or sick. A cowboy was expected to have courage. (Cowards could not be tolerated in the cowboy culture because one coward might endanger the whole outfit in time of danger.) No real cowboy was a complainer.

(Complaints were associated with quitting, and no real cowboy was a quitter.) A cowboy always helped a friend, but if the cowhand saw a stranger or even an enemy in distress, the rule said he was to render assistance as quickly as possible. (This mutual-help principle was essential to survival on the open range where everyone helped on another, especially during roundup time.) A cowboy did he best he could at all times. Of course there are a few other rules as well which contributed to the success of the cowboy. Too bad that these rules couldn't be included in many of busy lives today. Life would be much better. By the way, Gene Autry was not a cowboy. He was an actor. Buenas rutas (Happy Trails in Spanish)

Question: In response to his young radio listeners aspiring to be just like him, who created the Cowboy Code, or Cowboy Commandments?
Answer: Gene Autry